| Different species of Python || Interested in PyPy? Jython? IronPython? This session will take a tour through the various [[SIGs/Python#Python_Runtimes|implementations of the Python language]], comparing them, and hopefully segueing into a discussion of how to improve Fedora's support for them. || Intermediate; knowledge of python programming or packaging || [[User:dmalcolm|Dave Malcolm]]

| Different species of Python || Interested in PyPy? Jython? IronPython? This session will take a tour through the various [[SIGs/Python#Python_Runtimes|implementations of the Python language]], comparing them, and hopefully segueing into a discussion of how to improve Fedora's support for them. || Intermediate; knowledge of python programming or packaging || [[User:dmalcolm|Dave Malcolm]]

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| Strategies for securing a linux system || Want to protect your computer from attack? This session will present a few basic ways of improving system security (Will there be a projector available?) || Beginner to Intermediate || [[User:malak|Donald Buchan]]

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| Strategies for securing a linux system || Want to protect your computer from attack? This session will present a few basic ways of improving system security http://www.malak.ca/linux/strategiesforsecuringalinuxsystem.pdf [http://www.malak.ca/linux/strategiesforsecuringalinuxsystem.pdf] || Beginner to Intermediate || [[User:malak|Donald Buchan]]

You will have 5 minutes; slides are discouraged because they may take a while to set up, but if you really want to use slides, please send them to Ian well ahead of time. I highly recommend rehearsing your talk ''at least once''.

You will have 5 minutes; slides are discouraged because they may take a while to set up, but if you really want to use slides, please send them to Ian well ahead of time. I highly recommend rehearsing your talk ''at least once''.

| Fedora Medical Packaging and review sprint || [[User:Susmit|Susmit]]|| We have quite a few packages in the package-wishlist and in package review phase. We plan to package and push at least a few packages. || Network access

| Fedora Medical Packaging and review sprint || [[User:Susmit|Susmit]]|| We have quite a few packages in the package-wishlist and in package review phase. We plan to package and push at least a few packages. || Network access

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| Fedora Events System || [[User:Nushio|Juan Rodriguez]]|| I've been planning/working on a WebApp that would centralize where all events are kept, as well as manage budgets, attendance and other things. Ambassadors, Event Organizers,WebDesigners, Java people welcome! || Whiteboard / Network access

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| Fedora Events System || [[User:Nushio|Juan Rodriguez]]|| I've been planning/working on a WebApp that would centralize where all events are kept, as well as manage budgets, attendance and other things. Ambassadors, Event Organizers,WebDesigners, Java people welcome! [[http://nushio.fedorapeople.org/fes/roadmap.html| Roadmap]] || Whiteboard / Network access

Please add your name to the list if you will attend. Also, please indicate the following:

Put an X in the $$$ column if you need funding to attend, and visit the FUDCon ticket tracker to make a funding request. We have a limited budget and will work hard to fund as many people as possible. We'll use these answers to help figure out budgeting for the event. We are making arrangements for attendees from other geographic regions to encourage specific initiatives such as future FUDCon events, but preference may otherwise be given to people in North America.

Put a V in the Veg column if you would like vegetarian fare for any meals that we provide during the event. If you prefer vegan fare, please mark that column VV. We will do our best to make sure everyone is accommodated!

Put your T-shirt size in the Size column, so we can have an idea about what sizes to have available. (Use a W to note a women's size if needed.)

Roomsharing:

If you want or need to share a room, mark yes in the "Roomshare?" column.

Once you have a roommate, both of you should mark your roommate's name in the block as well.

If you need a roommate, look for someone with just a yes in the column, and contact them via email. If you encounter any problems, let the organizers know.

Use the Comments section for anything else you think organizers need to know, or to offer or ask for space or rides.

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Primary hotel block is closedThe primary hotel has run out of rooms for our block, and is no longer accepting reservations. Please take a look at the #Secondary_Hotel section below for more information on making a lodging reservation.

King + sofabed room | Queen + Queen room -- The deadline for reservations is November 5. Note that depending on when you make your reservation, you may be presented with a different room type. King rooms also include a sofabed, and will accommodate separate double occupancy. The special FUDCon rate is $99 per night (single or double occupancy).

Shoulder dates

If your stay requires extra nights before or after the nights of 28-31 January ("shoulder dates"), and the online link does not accommodate your input, call the hotel directly at the phone number above for assistance, and feel free to let the organizers know online (IRC or email) so we can request additional shoulder dates as needed.

Proximity

The hotel is located within easy walking distance of the classroom space where the technical sessions will be held on Saturday and Sunday. There is a bit more of a walk to Memorial Union for Monday's hackfests, but it's under 20 minutes away (less than a mile).

Making secondary hotel reservationsThe Four Points Sheraton reservation date has passed. HOWEVER, you can still get the group rate for a short time (and this offer may expire at any moment, so please act fast). Book your room online using normal methods, and then contact Robyn Bergeron via email or IRC to have your confirmation number merged into the group booking list.

If your stay requires extra nights before or after the nights of 28-31 January ("shoulder dates"), please let the organizers know via the fudcon-planning mailing list, or via IRC, so that we can arrange additional shoulder dates as needed.

Proximity

The Four Points Sheraton Tempe is within walking distance (2 miles) of the Brickyard Artisan Court building, the primary hotel (Courtyard Marriott Tempe), and Mill Avenue.

Transportation

The Four Points Sheraton Tempe provides airport shuttle, as well as shuttle to events on ASU campus. The shuttle is first-come, first-served; if you are depending on the shuttle to go places, be sure to ask at the front desk ahead of time.

The City of Tempe also has free, local bus routes. The Orbit Mercury bus line travels from approximately 1 block from the Sheraton, and has stops near ASU Memorial Union, the ASU Brickyard Engineering and Artisan Court buildings, and is approximately 2 blocks from the Courtyard Marriott.

The hotel features a complimentary airport shuttle. Please call the hotel at +1 (480) 966-2800 (if staying at the Courtyard) or +1 (480)968-3451 (if staying at the Sheraton) to make a shuttle inquiry if needed.

Note: There is no toll-free courtesy phone at the PHX airport for this shuttle. You must either place a call from a cell phone or toll phone at the airport, or you may visit the Information Desk and have them call the Courtyard Tempe Downtown for shuttle service. Correction: The shuttle cannot take advance bookings in most cases because they are unable to wait at passenger pickup due to airport traffic and safety regulations. However, the hotel is only a ~20 minute round trip from the airport, so you should not have to wait long for a pickup.

Valley METRO Light Rail (on Wikipedia) Metro trains run between Dobson Road in Mesa and Bethany Home Road in Phoenix; the center of the line connects Sky Harbor International Airport with downtown Tempe.

Metro trains run from the airport to downtown Tempe. The Mill station ("Mill Avenue and Third Street") is two very short blocks from the proposed hotel for FUDCon

To board a train from the airport, take the Phoenix Airport Shuttle from any terminal to the Airport Metro station ("44th Street and Washington"). Detailed directions are located here.

A one-ride pass for Metro (good on all local trains and buses) is $1.75; a full-day Metro pass is $3.50. Farecard machines accept credit and debit cards, and cash. 5-packs of full-day passes can be purchased online, in advance, for $17.50, and should be received within 5-7 days.

There are several lots available near the Memorial Union in which to park.

The ASU Parking Map shows parking by lot number. More information is available on the ASU Parking website. The ASU Memorial Union is located in the southern part of campus, and is labeled MU on the ASU parking map.

Apache Boulevard Parking Structure. Payment is required Monday-Friday, 6am-10:30pm. Rate is $2/hr, with a maximum fee of $8. Cash, Visa, MasterCard and Sun Dollars accepted. Located on the north side Apache Boulevard, between College and Normal Avenues.

Lot 19. NO OVERNIGHT PARKING. Lot is not staffed; you pay a machine. Parking available Mon-Sat, 7am-10pm, $2/hr, maximum of 12 hours. Located on the south side of Apache Boulevard, between College and Normal Avenues.

Lot 17. One-day pass parking. Visitors may purchase a visitor day pass through MyParking Online Services. Day passes are valid all day for the date purchased, and must be printed by you (ie: not by ASU). Visitors who are not ASU students will have to create an account.

Lot 13. Metered Parking. Meters are $1.50 per hour, some with a maximum of one-hour parking, others with a two-hour limit. All meters at the Tempe campus require payment from Mon-Sat, 7am-10pm. Meters accept nickels, dimes, and quarters. At Lemon St & Forest Ave.

Lot 27. Metered Parking. Meters are $1.50 per hour, some with a maximum of one-hour parking, others with a two-hour limit. All meters at the Tempe campus require payment from Mon-Sat, 7am-10pm. Meters accept nickels, dimes, and quarters. Orange St, near McAllister Ave.

The SSID for our conference wireless network on ASU grounds is ASU Guest. Note this wireless network requires you to complete a Web portal click-through for authentication. Authentication is required after any extended disconnect time, or after 12 hours have elapsed.

The network is expected to allow at least traffic for HTTP/S (80/443) and SSH (22). We will be testing the network for final connectivity details the day before the event, and updated information will be provided here as needed.

FUDCon is a community event in which the complete schedule is developed interactively starting with an opening orientation session. Attendance at orientation is recommended for those who are new to this format, or to FUDCon, Fedora, or free and open source software community events in general.

Refereeing for technical sessions Note that this FUDCon, technical sessions may be refereed or decided by panel or other means. However, we do require material for all sorts of experience levels, so do not worry about competition. Simply propose something you think would be of interest to attendees.

Technical sessions ANYONE can propose a session, including you. Just pick a topic near and dear to your heart and propose it here.

This talk introduces how Information Security work can be done with the Fedora Security Lab and how you can contribute to it. It demonstrates the development state of the Fedora Security Lab and how the Fedora Security Lab implements and aids the OSSTMM.

this is for anyone who want to learn about FSL, or can/want to help me to improve it

Different cultures, different groups - one conduct and so many challenges. This is about how the Ambassadors group evolved over the years, what work was necessary to maintain the group in an healthy state and how we work torwards to face new challenges - and of course it will be a ground for discussions around this topic.

An entity called Red Hat Legal often tells Fedora what it can't do. This talk demystifies Red Hat Legal and explores the problematic issue of just what Fedora is, legally, in relation to Red Hat and its lawyers. The talk explains how and why Red Hat Legal makes decisions that affect Fedora, and why Fedora is uniquely important to Red Hat Legal.

Pulp is comprehensive content repository and consumer management. Pulp allows administrators to create and maintain software repositories, bind client machines to those repositories, and install software from the repositories to the clients remotely. Pulp can manage hundreds of repositories, thousands of clients, and tens to hundreds of thousands of software packages on a single instance. This presentation will show how to install pulp, synchronize software packages, and install them on a client machine. It will delve into pulp's architecture, common use cases, and finish with leveraging the pulp api and Q&A.

A training session for writing test cases for the installer's automatic storage test framework. This could spill over into a hackfest later should some good ideas come up or people need additional help.

The Matahari project aims to provide a remote systems management interface utilizing the AMQP/qpid message bus and QMF modeling framework. It is intended to be cross platform and cross distro so that it can be adopted and utilized in many places. This presentation will give an overview of the project, description of the architecture and initial use cases and discuss future applications/usages.

Fedora Engineering (the group of folks who work full-time on Fedora) is trying to decide what our next big project should be. Our areas of expertise are Python, Web Applications, and Design. Listen as we give 5 minute lightning presentations on each of our ideas and afterwards, tell us what you think! We'll be picking at least one initiative and working with the Fedora community to bring it to life, but perhaps this will inspire you (or you will inspire us)!

This session will review a multi-week course taught to a group of Girl Scouts using Fedora and will offer lessons learned and what-to-expect for those of you who have considered volunteering for a similar program.

Interested in PyPy? Jython? IronPython? This session will take a tour through the various implementations of the Python language, comparing them, and hopefully segueing into a discussion of how to improve Fedora's support for them.

A general discussion on challenges, opportunities and tasks for migrating systems from proprietary platforms to Linux and Open Source. Will include reference cases, current business trends and environment, and a broad discussion of the Open Source Community and status. Please bring your questions or experiences to share!

Let's talk about where we want Fedora to go and what we want to achieve during the next couple of release cycles. Where should we be by Fedora 17 or 18? We'll talk through a currently list of proposed goals and brainstorm additional goals and discuss the feasibility and interest behind each goal. Fedora Board members will be present.

Want to continue contributing to open source for a long time, undaunted by hand/back/shoulder/arm pain? Learn body awareness, tools (including keyboards and workspace setups as well as open source software such as typing break reminders) and processes (how to relax during intensive IRC team meetings, keeping up with email lists without killing your hands) for contributing to FOSS without compromising your long-term physical ability to do so. This will be an experimental, hands-on session; bring your laptop. For those in pain and those who never want to be.

Communities exist all arround the world thanks to group collaboration, but how do you turn one excellent contributor into a teacher able to guide a world of amazing people into a sucessful community? So, lets teach leaders how to help 10 contributors

Have you learn something awesome and want to show the world how to do it? why don't you record a podcast and spread it? Learn how to make easy tutorials that will contribute to make better collaborative teams/groups

AppStream is new cross distro initiative to make browsing and installing applications easier. This is basically a report about the first meeting and what is going on. There will be an brief overview over the architecture and what parts of Fedora or the Fedora infrastructure may need improvements to make that happen. This is all still brand new and contributors are welcome. Now is the time to make a difference!

Want to take your shell scripting to the next level? Interested in adding string manipulation and arrays to your arsenal? Want to do in shell math? Learn some intermediate scripting techniques as well as useful command line tips.

We'll do lightning talks after lunch on Sunday. These talks are to be no longer than 5 minutes, at which point we will gong you out. Talk about what you are passionate about — and it doesn't have to necessarily be Fedora.

The lightning talks will be administered by Ian Weller; official sign-ups for slots will be done after Saturday morning pitches. We are now out of slots.

You will have 5 minutes; slides are discouraged because they may take a while to set up, but if you really want to use slides, please send them to Ian well ahead of time. I highly recommend rehearsing your talk at least once.

Large display or screen to show what's being hacked on, laptop hooked to screen, room for two people to pair program while being watched by an audience. A timekeeper. Hour to hour and a half to program and then discuss.

Coding Dojo: Ruby

Guillermo G�mez (gomix)

Large display or screen to show what's being hacked on, laptop hooked to screen, room for two people to pair program while being watched by an audience. A timekeeper. Hour to hour and a half to program and then discuss.

work out strawman proposals for how Fedora is governed - focus to get better with logistics and budget management outside the US and make it manageable and available for all Groups inside the Fedora Project

After the Hackathon at Olin, this is the second push for getting Etherpad packaged and into shape. We need packagers, java programmers, people who want to work on whipping documentation, as well as folks to legally review libraries.

Large display or screen to show what's being hacked on, laptop hooked to screen. Room for 10-ish people. This might be a longer session.

I've been planning/working on a WebApp that would centralize where all events are kept, as well as manage budgets, attendance and other things. Ambassadors, Event Organizers,WebDesigners, Java people welcome! [Roadmap]

We've got some cool new Fedora infrastructure integration plugins for Eclipse. They're available now (yum install eclipse-fedorapackager) but there's plenty more we can do: review submissions, PackageKit integration, improved mock integration, convenient options like "bump release, commit, and rebuild", <insert your ideas here>. Come on out and you'll be hacking on it in less than 10 minutes.

We'll welcome guests on Friday evening at the hotel, at our hospitality suite in the hotel's Meeting Room B. You'll be able to pick up information packets there, as well as your FUDCon badge and other free goodies. We'll get you oriented with maps and answer your other questions, and we'll have snacks and beverages for you as well. The suite will be available nightly throughout the conference for hacking, gaming, and so on until at least 11:00pm.

Meet your fellow Fedorans and enjoy some of the geekiest board games we can find (or at least, what spot brings along from his collection). We'll setup in the Hospitality Suite, first come, first serve sort of thing. If you want to bring a game, please, feel free, but to avoid unnecessary duplication, please add entries to this list.

Sparky's Den is in the Memorial Union building (where the Monday proceedings will be held). It features plenty of games and amusements such as bowling, billiards, ping-pong, video games, and pinball. There should be plenty of room for everyone attending.

We will be treating everyone to food, provided by the ASU catering service, and soft drinks. We look forward to winding down from the first day of FUDCon fun with all of you!

FUDCon is planned openly and transparently. Anyone is welcome to attend and participate in the meetings. All attendees are expected to be polite and constructive. Planning happens through email and IRC:

Planning via email is done on the fudcon-planning list, which is open to participants to join.

Regular IRC meetings are held on Monday at 3:00pm US-Eastern time (regardless of UTC) in #fudcon-planning[?].

IRC meeting agenda is set from the FUDCon planning Trac, using all tickets with the na-meeting keyword set. To add something to the agenda, file a new ticket (if required) and add the na-meeting keyword. Here is the current agenda.